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Oct. 15th, 2008 07:00 pmJust catching up on Heroes now and am I nutty or is black hole guy Bubs from The Wire? This amuses me greatly. Also Hiro's line "Like the Cantina!" made me laugh and laugh and laugh.
Got to see the finale of State of Play last night and all I can say is that it was every bit as good as I'd hoped. The kind of complex, well written and well acted murder mystery that I've come to expect from the Brits. Of course just as I was coasting along on a great tv high![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elo_sf insisted on subjecting me to the first 15 minutes of the American Life on Mars.
It was just as dreadful as I'd feared, and then some. I'd heard fromaelfsciene that the soundtrack was overwhelming and badly bungled and the acting third rate at best. But what I found the most interesting, and sad, about the whole thing was that while they had all the basic elements of the original it had none of the style or the charm. It was fascinating just how many levels of fail the episode achieved in such a short period of time. Not the least of which was just how hideously unsympathetic this Sam was, he was like watching an animated slab of meat.
Another thing thatelo_sf pointed out was that setting the show in NYC did it no favors. There was a very good reason the original was set in Manchester rather than London, they didn't want the city to overwhelm the story. Putting the American version in NYC basically bitch slaps the viewer in the face repeatedly every single episode. And OMG the shot with the Twin Towers made us all groan aloud and bury our faces in our hands.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. I'll be astonished if the show makes it past 13 episodes let alone to a second season. And rightfully so.
Got to see the finale of State of Play last night and all I can say is that it was every bit as good as I'd hoped. The kind of complex, well written and well acted murder mystery that I've come to expect from the Brits. Of course just as I was coasting along on a great tv high
elo_sf insisted on subjecting me to the first 15 minutes of the American Life on Mars. It was just as dreadful as I'd feared, and then some. I'd heard from
aelfsciene that the soundtrack was overwhelming and badly bungled and the acting third rate at best. But what I found the most interesting, and sad, about the whole thing was that while they had all the basic elements of the original it had none of the style or the charm. It was fascinating just how many levels of fail the episode achieved in such a short period of time. Not the least of which was just how hideously unsympathetic this Sam was, he was like watching an animated slab of meat. Another thing that
elo_sf pointed out was that setting the show in NYC did it no favors. There was a very good reason the original was set in Manchester rather than London, they didn't want the city to overwhelm the story. Putting the American version in NYC basically bitch slaps the viewer in the face repeatedly every single episode. And OMG the shot with the Twin Towers made us all groan aloud and bury our faces in our hands.Stupid, stupid, stupid. I'll be astonished if the show makes it past 13 episodes let alone to a second season. And rightfully so.
